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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: kiwi@unagi.cybernothing.org Date: 22 Jun 98 - 11:07 AM At the moment I'm listening to a King's Singers album .. they do all-vocal arrangements of everything under the sun, from madrigals to jazz to pop to sacred.. the song I'm on right now is "Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover" by Paul Simon. The song right after is my favorite of the album, "That Lonesome Road" by James Taylor and John Groinick. And by the way, anyone know where I can find an original Taylor version of that? Sla/n, Kiwi |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Barbara Date: 21 Jun 98 - 04:59 PM Hey Will, I was there too, do you remember Frankie and Martin Carthy and the WAtersons and, I think, Leon Rosselson and Roy Bailey all singing Azekatarle on one of the small stages? Or the bellydancer at the party the first night? One of the friends I went with worked the festival and his job was to keep Dave vR supplied with boose, way he tells it he didn't see much of the festival.... Also have an indelible memory of Frankie striding out to the end of the floating dock at Sweetsmill and jumping off into the lake, by herself. Thought to myself that I'd like to have that much courage if I were blind... Blessings, Barbara |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Big Mick Date: 19 Jun 98 - 09:46 PM I love this thread!! I am listening to "Beaver Island House Party" just now. Then some Doc Watson or Leo Kottke's "Standing in My Shoes". |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Will Date: 19 Jun 98 - 03:29 PM Yes, Frankie Armstrong is wonderful in person. I recall seeing her at the Vancouver Folk Festival about 15 years ago, doing a workshop of Brecht and Weill songs with Dave van Ronk. Truly wonderful. |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Bojangles Date: 18 Jun 98 - 11:52 PM I am listening to: Doug Geeting "Between Flights" Unplugged and Grounded Acoustic Guitar Doug is an Alaska bush pilot who has obiously put in many long hours working out the intricacies of the picking of Mississippi John Hurt. Doug does his fine picking and singing between flights to Mt. McKinley and other targets near Talkeeta. Since he flew me onto McKinley and we later played at the Fairview Inn 'til the wee hours, I have listened to his CD many times in the past three years. It hasn't begun to go stale on me. His address: Doug, PO Box 42, Talkeetna, Ak 99676 |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Dave Schipper Date: 18 Jun 98 - 10:41 PM While I meant that he recorded the two songs backwards, it was supposed to be Soo Line first and then the Keewanaw, but now that you mentioned it, I always thought I heard "rubber ducky you're the one" if I played his banjo tunes backward. |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Frank Maher Date: 18 Jun 98 - 10:45 AM Right now I'm listening to a CD of Frank Quinn "If You are Irish" Old Irish American Music & Song of the 1920s & 30s Great Old Stuff. |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Bill D Date: 18 Jun 98 - 10:35 AM aldus...great choices...we may not spell the same, but we sure could trade music! You have inspired me- I have several Frankie Armstrong albums and 2 Delores Keane that have not been played in ages..gonna get them out today. (no...haven't seen that Topic on CD yet) I still remember with awe the one opportunity I had to see and hear Frankies Armstrong live...what power and feeling!! |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Rockaday Johnnie Date: 17 Jun 98 - 11:48 AM Hey -Dave You're right --I think there's some political things going on when you play that Art Thieme Folk Legacy Lp backwards..I hear Art singing "I Love Disco" over and over. |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: John M. Date: 17 Jun 98 - 11:42 AM "Doe's your chewin gum loose its flavor' 100 times every day!!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: rosebrook Date: 17 Jun 98 - 01:42 AM solas |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Dave Schipper Date: 16 Jun 98 - 10:37 PM First thanks everyone, my list of music to buy has grown, I completely forgot about James Keelagan. The Grace Family cover his mine song, and it's one of my favorite. I went to put on Outright Bold Face Lies, but ended up with "That's the Ticket" We should start a thread of the singing takes me back... Whenever I hear the record I go back to the North Country Folk Festival in Ironwood. A short lived but awesome festival. Camping on Little Girls Point in July in a tent with temperatures in the 40's and Lake Superior churning iron red. But Art, why did you perform the Craig Johnson songs backwards on the record? |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Jon W. Date: 16 Jun 98 - 03:27 PM Just got back from a lunchtime concert by a local Celtic band, Shanahy. Nice stuff on fiddle, guitar, mandolin, hammered dulcimer, whistle, pipes (possibly Scottish smallpipes?), bohran. Nice Celtic weather, also - cloudy, breezy, cold, threatening rain. Next up: a tape of Tenpenny, another local band that plays Irish/Celtic trad music. |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: aldus Date: 16 Jun 98 - 01:57 PM My second go rounf at this..today it is Frankie Armstrong, the first Topic album. Does anyone know if it has been released on Cd ? Also, Delores Keene.. Broken Hearted I Wander and Amazing Blondel.. |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Dan Mulligan Date: 16 Jun 98 - 12:53 AM "Leahy"- |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Pauline Lerner Date: 16 Jun 98 - 12:17 AM Here's something different. I'm now listening to "J.S. Bach, Sonates pour Flute." Is someone keeping tabs on the responses? A statistical analysis would be interesting. We could sort by performer, composer, genre, input (many CDs and a few LPs), day of the week, etc. Pauline |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Will Date: 15 Jun 98 - 10:20 PM Ah, such fine stacks of music that people listen to. Just back from Pittsburgh with a treasure trove from Dave's Dungeon on 4th (or some such, I was paying more attention to the music than the name). I've got Jez Lowe's Tenterhooks playing, with the Who (Face Dances), Tannahill Weavers, DiFranco (Not so soft), the Farina's, Buffy Sainte Marie (Coincidence), the Rankins (North Country), Patti Smith (Waves), and Pete Townsend (PsycoDerilict) lined up. I'm not sure I'll get to bed tonight! |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Jon W. Date: 15 Jun 98 - 10:58 AM OOOPs, inadvertent click there. I meant to recommend to Roger, Woody Mann's guitar tablature book of Robert Johnson (I think it's called "The Complete Robert Johnson") as an excellent start to learning RJ's tunes. Jon W. |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Jon W. Date: 15 Jun 98 - 10:55 AM |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Roger Himler Date: 14 Jun 98 - 10:32 PM I haven't cranked up the old CD player since getting home, but I checked out what I was listening to most recently. There is Chuck Brodsky's "A Fingerpainter's Mural." He's a current singer/songwriter with a sense of humor and also an affection for baseball. I plan to learn his song "Blow 'Em Away," a song about roadrage that is politically incorrect. "I rolled down the window, took out my pistol, and I blew 'em away." I listen to many current singer/songwriter's, the troubadours of today who create the folksongs of tomorrow. Next to that on the carousel is Robert Johnson's "The Complete Recordings." Maybe I'll learn something by aural osmosis. I am too embarassed by my guitar playing to try to take on any of these classics. "Wake Up Dead Man," a collection of 'Black convict work songs from Texas Prisons." Again, a renewed interest of mine. Perhaps I will learn one of these as well. And finally, my 21 year-old son has left a copy of Everclear's self-named CD. I know I wasn't listening to that. Roger in Baltimore
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Nora Date: 14 Jun 98 - 09:47 PM Yes Grubby I have heard James Keelaghan live several times and will go put the CD on in a minute, just as soon as Richard Thompson You Me Us is over. I heard his record on the radio in Northern Minnesota, and then saw him live at the Winnipeg Folk Festival a few years back. I was really looking forward to his mainstage performance -- sort of the grand ending to a glorious festival -- following his set, he was to lead the assembled crowd in a bunch of tunes, including my favorite, Mary Ellen Carter. However, the nasty weather that had been threatening finally broke and he cut his set short and sent us all scurrying back to our campsites. Thunderstorms and tornadoes in Manitoba are not to be trifled with. One of the sound towers was knocked over. I saw him most recently in North Carolina at a Holiday Inn (!) on stage with a bar on the far side of the stage with NASCAR racing playing audibly throughout. He was a good sport about it. Nora |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Cuilionn Date: 14 Jun 98 - 08:45 PM I'm wairkin' thro' a hantle o' assigned list'nin' richt noo, frae a friend o' mine in Maine. We'll be jynin' up i' August for a month-lang ceilidh, an' I've been chargit wi' th' task o' lairnin' "high pairts" for ev'ry song on th' Watersons' tapes she sent, as weel as some richt fine bits frae a recordin' o' Janet Russell an' Christine Kidd. (Dinnae ken th' name o' that last ane, my friend didnae hae th' grace tae wricht oot th' titles o' ev'rythin' she sent.) The "Silly Sisters" albums frae Maddy Prior & June Tabor are anither pairt o' my assigned listenin' (can't complain). Any Mudcatters gang tae be aroond Pownal, Maine, in August? It micht be a strange ceilidh, but it'll be a guid ane! --Cuilionn |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Date: 14 Jun 98 - 08:44 PM Women of the World Celtic II. Putumayo,PUTU 134-2. (This, BTW, comes in one of those cardboard CD containers which heretofore had only been used by jazz musicians, and I am delighted that the concept is catching on. I must break two or three plastic CD cases a week.) Prior to that, a tape, "Cape Breton Fiddlers on Early LP's", Breton Books and Music, no ID #. Prior to that, a homemade tape (thanks, Nigel) of Chris Foster's "All Things In Common", a deleted Topic LP. Prior to that, Steeleye Span "Ten Man Mop", Crest CD009. |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Bill D Date: 13 Jun 98 - 06:18 PM I think Ill go on and copy what I have to a new thread, so it will be all there in one place... |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Bill D Date: 13 Jun 98 - 05:56 PM The title in my book is "Poor Lil' Brack Sheep"...copywrite 1900 by E.O. Excell... Book is 'Make His Praise Glorious'....says it was written by Ethel Maude Colson and Lucy Rider Meyer
"Poor lil' brack sheep that stray'd away (gonna send this...then add other verses...have RTI!) |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Art Thieme Date: 13 Jun 98 - 10:48 AM Well, it's definitely not the Bulls that's playing right now. Congratulations to Salt Lake City on a great game last eve. Time'll tell... Art |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Frank in the swamps Date: 13 Jun 98 - 06:03 AM Just before I went to work, it was Sinatra, right now, nothing. My Significant Bother is sound asleep, if I had the guts, I'd pop in a Eugene O'Donal cd. I'd love to hear "The downfall of Paris" but the "little woman" isn't so little when she's angry. Frank in the shh! swamps. |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Art Thieme Date: 13 Jun 98 - 01:14 AM That'd be great to see for certain. But in a day I'll be gone for a few weeks. I'll look tomorrow and then when I get home. "Master Of The Sheepfold" , as I was told, was found in Maine by Bill Bonyun. He sang it to Susan Richardson who took it to the New York Pinewoods folk camp in Massachusetts. Jerry Epstein, at Pinewoods, taught it to me. Driving back to Chicago after Pinewoods that summer I stopped to hang out with my old Chicago friend, Cindy Mangsen, who then lived near Albany, New York. I showed that to her then for the first time. Later I changed the language of the song from the very heavy Afrom-American dialect I'd learned it in----"Massa Ob De Sheepfold" became "Master Of The Sheepfold". I think it's now twice as beautiful as it was before. And Cindy & Anne make it sound like an angel chorus! To make this fit into this thread I ought to let you know I'm listening to Cindy & Anne's CD right NOW! Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Bill D Date: 12 Jun 98 - 08:05 PM I will be posting a new thread about "The Master of the Sheepfold"...I have an old gospel hymnal with what must be the 'original' of that...verses in black dialect, but obviously 'same' song. I'll get the book out and type 'em in..... |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Art Thieme Date: 12 Jun 98 - 07:35 PM Johnnie---Yep, it was me on that song with lots o' others. Annie'd get upset when we'd sing, "While you sleep, While you sleep, Lend me your car while you sleep, You won't need it then..." That sure was a LONG TIME AGO--a whole other marriage. Cindy & Anne do a great job on a song I taught 'em--"The Master Of The Sheepfold"---on the new CD! I was gonna be on that track with 'em but couldn't do that. (It will be on the CD I'm doin... (Say Johnnie, Do I know you?) Art |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Rockaday Johnnie Date: 12 Jun 98 - 11:47 AM I've been waiting for the Hills/Mangsen to come out --I'm looking forward to hearing it..I love Annie when she does the trad songs---like the "Panic" lp?cd --Gee Art, I'll bet that's your voice I hear in "while I Sleep". Steve & Cindy will be in the area in Nevember - hope to get some time with them..It's been a while. |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Art Thieme Date: 12 Jun 98 - 11:05 AM Johnnie---GREAT TASTE! All are grand! Cindy is the only other voice that EVER was on any recording with me. She sang harmony on a version of the Texas Rivers song that was re-written for IL & WI. (other than that one cut it was just me and my instrument. Cindy & Anne Hills have a marvelous new CD out---title: NEVER GROW UP! Cindy & her husband, Steve Gillette are great friends to us & wonderful folkies! |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Rockaday Johnnie Date: 12 Jun 98 - 10:30 AM Time to load the CD Changer - This time; Geoff Muldaur - Sleepy Man Blues - Jack Elliott - Ramblin' Jack (His Topic Stuff) Bob Dylan - Guitars Kissing (The live 1966 "Royal Albert Hall" concert with the band)Cindy Mangsen Songlines (What a WONDERFUL voice) Paul Clayton - Wanted For Murder and Blind Willie Mctell - 1940 - the Library of Congress Co0llection --The cartridge I just pulled had all 6 of the Anthology which has been playinmg constantly lately... |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Grubby Date: 12 Jun 98 - 09:37 AM Right now I'm listening to James Keelaghan a great Canadian singer/songwriter. Discovered his songs when he visited Australia a couple of years ago. Would be interested to know if any othe mudcatters have come across this talented performer Regards Grubby |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Art Thieme Date: 11 Jun 98 - 08:56 PM You've a fine team in Utah---We're just as scared here in Illinois that the games might shift back to Salt Lake. So the Bulls MUST win it tomorrow night or I'll be on the road & can't watch 'em when Michael & Scotty & Dennis win it all out there! And any state that's named after Utah Phillips can't be all bad! (Do you folks go out on the salt flats & build "salt castles"?) 30 Years ago I saw a mirrage on the Flats---an ENTIRE MOUNTAIN I was watching just up an' DISAPEARED!Truly amazing. Also, I heard that Brigham stayed there 'cause he was sure corn'd grow on salt!! Art |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Jon W. Date: 11 Jun 98 - 04:15 PM Well, Art, I'm glad someone's happy. Here in Utah the depression is almost unbearaBULL. |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Joe Offer Date: 11 Jun 98 - 12:11 AM Gee, Art - I thought all that BULL was coming from you..... Uhhhhh, sorry... -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Art Thieme Date: 10 Jun 98 - 11:27 PM RIGHT NOW I'm listening to the BULLS GAME!!! Art |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Art Thieme Date: 10 Jun 98 - 11:23 PM Joe, Wish I could tell ya when it might be out! Andrew Calhoun (Waterbug Records)wants it to be out by the Fox River Valley Festival (Labor Day) but I kind o' doubt that. Got much to do and need to go to Mayo Cl. for a few weeks first--then maybe a voiceover for a docu-thing on Civil War reinactors---so stuff's on hold. Rockaday Johnny--Thanks--that live LP on Kicking Mule used to be a compact disk--then I fed it a Viagra and an hour later--lo & behold--12 inches! "Tell your ma--tell your pa--our love's gonna grow--doo waa, doo waa!!" art |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Animaterra Date: 10 Jun 98 - 07:54 PM Zap Mama, Adventures in Afropea I. Incredible close harmony and rhythmic technogyric! |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Joe Offer Date: 10 Jun 98 - 12:56 PM Yeah, Art, and the rest of us are waiting for a CD!! When's it coming out? -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Rockaday Johnnie Date: 10 Jun 98 - 10:21 AM --Yeah, Art -- and it's a goodun' |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Art Thieme Date: 10 Jun 98 - 12:14 AM Johnny, You're one of the few that has that LP! Art |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Art Thieme Date: 10 Jun 98 - 12:11 AM Right now I'm listening to 2 cassettes I dubbed via Real Audio (3 hours ) from the Archive Of Folk Culture at the Library Of Congress. It's a wondrous collection recorded in dust bowl era US camps in California by Chas. Todd in 1940 and 1941! http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/afc.html Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: kiwi@unagi.cybernothing.org Date: 09 Jun 98 - 09:53 PM Heyla, At the moment I'm dubbing my "Mind Games" mix - I put together a mix of Celtic/Folk and Classic Rock and am going to drop it off in the mailboxes of a few teachers at my school with a note saying "Let me know if you like the music" and an Email address.. just for fun, to see who responds. The song currently playing is "Reinventing the Wheel", a beautiful little folk song by a local group. Anyone want the lyrics? The song right before it was "Wilderness" by Clannad, the one right after is "Time In a Bottle" by Jim Croce Sla/n, Kiwi |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Big Mick Date: 09 Jun 98 - 08:51 PM Hi Jon, "The crather" is a way to say "the creature" which refers to whiskey, and most likely John Jamesons very finest Irish (is there any other) Whiskey. Oops, my bias is showing. I believe it comes from the West of Ireland, as my Grandda, who was a Galway man, used it all the time. Mick |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Bill D Date: 09 Jun 98 - 08:17 PM The last things on the CD player were Jean Redpath's "Songs of Robert Burns" and "Old Time Banjo" by Reed Martin, a Wash DC area fellow who seems to have won every clawhammer banjo award and contest known..he is UNBELIEVABLE! (and all the tunes have a real story of how he learned them and such!) The last 33 1/3's were "Yehudi Menuhin meets Ravi Shankar" and "Ballads of Alaska" by 'Uncle Bob' Pavitt, featuring a sterling rendition of "When the Iceworms Nest Again" next in line are "Introducing the Beers Family" which I found in a 2nd hand store, and four 10" LP's of Richard Dyer-Bennet!!.. |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Nora Date: 09 Jun 98 - 04:22 PM How funny! It sounds like some of us are probably listening to the same things. I want to check out the Ancient Voices Cd that aldus mentions. In my CD changer I have Greg Brown's Slant 6 Mind, one of the Sandy Denny Retrospective volumes, Leonard Cohen's more best of collection, Tom Waits The Early Years Vol 2, and Kate and Anna McGarrigle's Matapedia. All I need to do now is hit play. I've been sitting here listening to the traffic noises. I've been looking at those 150+ CD changers Earl mentions. I like the idea of putting everything in there and hitting random play. Nora |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Barbara Shaw Date: 09 Jun 98 - 12:47 PM I'm on my lunch hour, so nothing playing in the background. However, I just added a new song to my family songbook from an unusual (for me) source. Heard Randy Travis on Good Morning America the other day, singing a GREAT song called The Hole. Finally found it on tape, so this one song cost me $10, but it makes a great bluegrass number. (My first/only Randy Travis album). You can listen to it at http://www.randy-travis.com/you.htm Imagine it with banjo instead of steel guitar. Imagine it without drums. Imagine it with high tenor harmony. Imagine not being at work . . . |
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Subject: RE: What's playing now? From: Jaxon Date: 09 Jun 98 - 11:26 AM I'm currently listening to a retrospective of Sandy Denny released on Ryko. She was such a talent. Jack Murray |
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